DID YOU KNOW that your 700MHz wireless systems are obsolete and inoperable?
It's TRUE. When the transition to Digital TV takes place, users of 700 MHz systems will be forced to seek other frequency bands, and that means a mandatory replacement of many common wireless systems in use today.
Guitarworks realizes that most folks are unaware of this situation. Many have heard conflicting information about what will and won't occur in the 700 mHz range. Many churches and schools have a hodge-podge of wireless systems from various manufacturers in VHF and UHF ranges, and have little understanding of how they work, and why interference occurs.
Last year, the FCC reallocated the (698 MHz to 806 MHz) the "700 MHz" frequency band. This space, previously used by most non-commercial wireless systems, will now house public safety and commercial users.  Which means wireless users operating in the 700 MHz spectrum must vacate the premises. That means, you have to purchase systems that operate outside the 700 MHz bandwidth.
In a nutshell existing 700MHz wireless systems will not function as designed and will be illegal to operate!
Hoping to drive the point home, companies investing in the reallocated 700 MHz spectrum are lobbying the FCC to levy heavy fines against wireless users who trespass into the spectrum. How the FCC will immediately react is unknown, but here's the immediate effect on those who continue to operate in the 700 MHz band:
"What will ultimately happen is that users may one day find that they are taking hits and getting interference from new devices using the bandwidth. Instead of transmitting 100 feet, they will only go about 10, and so on. Changes are coming, and we all have to prepare." This is from Michael Pettersen, Director of Applications Engineering for Shure Corporation, the world's largest microphone manufacturer (as quoted in PRO SOUND NEWS, a leading industry trade magazine).
 
As Karl Winkler, director of business development for Lectrosonics' corporation pointed out, "users with low-cost, low-quality wireless will have to replace them, and this is not a bad thing for the users. This change in regulation will provide the impetus for them to go ahead and budget for new, higher quality and better performing systems.

Let us help you make the right decisions concerning your wireless needs, and guide you to the wisest and most economical solution. 
Guitarworks has MIPRO personal wireless, digital systems, in-ear wireless monitor systems and the rest of the MIPRO line up on display in our PA room. We also deal in Audio Technica, Shure, AKG and Sennheiser systems. Bring info on your current wireless systems with you, so we can best advise you on how to salvage your lavalier and headset microphones, by matching them to new body packs and receivers. 
                                                                                   
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